Comparison of Cloud Load Balancers: Alibaba Cloud Server Analysis

This report provides a comparative analysis of various cloud load balancers, with a specific focus on Alibaba Cloud Server. The discussion elaborates on the services and specifications of cloud load balancers, highlighting their role in effectively distributing workloads and traffic across multiple resources to enhance online business platforms. The report compares Alibaba Cloud Server with AWS ELB, Google Cloud Load Balancing, Node Balancers, Rackspace Cloud Load Balancers, Azure Load Balancer, DigitalOcean Load Balancer, and Incapsula Load Balancer, detailing differences in regional operations, data availability, and operational implementations. It emphasizes how these load balancers contribute to managing incoming requests, distributing traffic, and improving service quality and scalability for businesses. The report also references relevant research papers on cloud load balancing.

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The aim of this discussion to elaborate the services and specifications of cloud load
balancers. Cloud load balancers are introduced in order to effectively balance the loads in the
computing operations in which it distributes the operations and processes among the
computing resources (Anderson et al., 2015). There are several load balancers present in the
computing field which includes the AWS ELB, Google Cloud Load Balancing, Node
Balancers, Rackspace Cloud Load Balancers, Azure Load Balancer, DigitalOcean Load
Balancer as well as the incapsula Load Balancer (Ferris et al., 2014). This paper will further
proceed with the comparison of Alibaba Cloud Server with the above mentioned load
balancers which will consist the discussion of the specification on the listed cloud load
Balancer as well as it will explain how the load balancers helps the online businesses to
effectively balance the customer load. Alibaba Cloud Server Load Balancer offers the service
of effectively distribute the workload as well as the traffics among the multiple resources in
order to enhance the services of the respective business platform (Patel et al., 2013).
Followed by this aspect in has been noticed that this is one of the high performance cloud
load balancers in the computing field. While comparing the AWS ELB with the Alibaba
Cloud Server load Balancer it has been noticed that both the cloud load balancer offers their
services in entirely different regions as the Alibaba follows the city centric regions where as
the AWS ELB works by incorporating global region followed by this the data availability
zones are also different between both the cloud load balancers (Lu et al., 2017). Along with
the difference between the AWS ELB with the Alibaba Cloud Server Load Balancer there is
a significant difference of the operations of Google cloud load balancer while implementing
it on an online business platform. The fundamental operation of Google cloud in to
implement a software in a regional phase from where the by using the TCP/UDP in order to
balance the work load and the internet traffic. Followed by this the application of Node
Balancer also offers several benefits by managing the incoming the request in order to

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equally distribute or organize the process present in the online business. Along with this the
Rackspace Service Network works in two cloud network in which it effectively manages the
traffics present in the internal as well as in the external network. Apart from the application
of the above cloud balancers Azure load balancer works by utilizing the TCP/UDP layer 4 in
order to distribute the traffics among the VMs for the better availability of the information.
Another effective cloud load balancer in the computing field is the Incapsula load balancer
which works by distributing the business data and traffics in order to reduce the response
time as well as to enhance the service quality of the business. Lastly, the DigitalOcean load
balancer works by bringing high scalability as well as high availability to the business
infrastructure in order to effectively distribute the traffics as the pool of droplets across the
servers.

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Reference:
Anderson, E.K., Google Inc, 2015. Transparent load-balancing for cloud computing services.
U.S. Patent 8,958,293.
Ferris, J.M., Red Hat Inc, 2014. Load balancing in cloud-based networks. U.S. Patent
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Lu, C., Ye, K., Xu, G., Xu, C.Z. and Bai, T., 2017, December. Imbalance in the cloud: An
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Patel, P., Bansal, D., Yuan, L., Murthy, A., Greenberg, A., Maltz, D.A., Kern, R., Kumar, H.,
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